I am a very busy and important person.

[apocalypsos]

So, what have I done already this morning?

Well, I packed up my crap and drove down to Wal-Mart to get my hair cut. Don't have a coronary just yet. I was well-behaved and only got the mop tamed at the bottom by someone who actually has training rather than, say, me, a pair of scissors and a mirror. I explained to the stylist that I was trying to grow it out for a bob and she was all, "Well, you're almost there," and then I whined again about being impatient and how the frizzy wavy thing that happens once it gets longer has already started and blah blah bitchcakes.

It looks ... okay, I guess. Anybody else would probably think it was cute, but you know me. It's right at that point whether it's either too long or too short for me, depending on whether I'd rather have hair to play with or not, so the stylist telling me I'm only another month or so away from a bob doesn't even make me feel better.

Forgive me all the whining, I beg you. Neither of the jobs I interviewed for and would gladly take have called me back yet, although it's only been since Friday that I've reached a point where I think they might offer me anything, but being this close and not having either call me back yet is screwing with me until it's ALL I can think about. JOB. WANT JOB. GIMME JOB. Urgh. (I've been checking my voicemail every ten minutes, which is needy and pathetic even for me.)

Anyway, now I'm sitting in Panera for the first time in forever and I have three of my current novel files open on my desktop. God only knows if I'll actually get anything done on them just yet, but we'll see.

Here, let's do this:

Ask me something about my writing. Anything. My fanfic, my original stuff, my habits, my tricks, whatever. I'll answer as thoroughly as I can.

And because it always comes up when I open my writing process up for discussion ... yes, I have an agent. She is made of unicorns and cupcakes and glitter and is a very good spazz wrangler, as anyone who'd willingly shill for me should be if either one of us plan on coming out of this with our sanity intact. :D

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

"She is made of unicorns and cupcakes and glitter and is a very good spazz wrangler"

I'm pretty sure we don't have the same agent, but mine to is a talented spazz wrangler, bless her heart.

[damnedfallacy.livejournal.com]

I'm wishing you luck on the job situation! Have an apocolypse funny to make you feel better. It even goes well with your journal title!

[ladyofluthien.livejournal.com]

I think the first story of yours I read was the Dean does NaNoWriMo. Which was, and still is hilarious every time I read it.

How did the writing of that come about?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. I remember writing that one. That was only a few days before NaNoWriMo started that year, and I was really trying to be well-behaved and not start my story early so I was trying to write fic instead. And I was throwing ideas around, and I finally just said, "I wonder how Dean would do at NaNo?" I pounded that out really quickly, too.

I'm a big supporter of the school of Dean-has-weird-hobbies-for-him-at-least. :D

[theliel.livejournal.com]

what makes you want to do 'serious' horror writing?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

'Cause it's the stuff I like to read, basically. I'm occasionally tempted to write romance or attempt disaster nonfiction, but mostly I end up writing urban fantasy and horror because it's the exact sort of thing I look for when I hit Borders. That's how most of my story ideas come around, ngl. If I ever sit there saying, "You know what I'd really like to read?" I inevitably end up trying to write it with wizards and monsters and vampires. :)